President Donald Trump has written a memo to Congress stating that he has added Colombia to a list of nations that have failed to cooperate with the US in the drug war. Colombia now joins a list of contemporary US adversaries such as Venezuela, Burma, Afghanistan, and Bolivia — but the Colombian president vehemently disagrees that they belong on the list.
Per AP, this process is called “decertification.” Adam Isacson, a security researcher at the Washington Office on Latin America, explained to the publication, “Decertification is a blunt tool and a huge irritant in bilateral relations that goes well beyond drug issues and makes cooperation far harder in any number of areas. That’s why it’s so rarely used.”
